OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of the Brugada sign (right bundle branch block with ST elevation in V1-V3) in idiopathic ventricular fibrillation and in an age matched healthy population. DESIGN ECGs from 39 consecutive patients with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation and 592 healthy controls were reviewed. They were classified as definite, questionable, and no Brugada sign (according ...

Lasso is a popular method for variable selection in regression. Much theoretical understanding has been obtained recently on its model selection or sparsity recovery properties under sparse and homoscedastic linear regression models. Since these standard model assumptions are often not met in practice, it is important to understand how Lasso behaves under nonstandard model assumptions. In this ...

This work presents a statistical recognition approach performing large vocabulary continuous sign language recognition across different signers. Automatic sign language recognition is currently evolving from artificial lab-generated data to ’real-life’ data. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time system design on a large data set with true focus on real-life applicability is thoro...

This paper summarizes various algorithms used to design a sign language recognition system. Sign language is the language used by deaf people to communicate among themselves and with normal people. We designed a real time sign language recognition system that can recognize gestures of sign language from videos under complex backgrounds. Segmenting and tracking of non-rigid hands and head of the...

Simply, shape bionics is to extract an image feature of natural objects, and most the techniques for transforming presenting are focused on metaphorical effects. In particular, extraction process metaphor design seems be related concept Saussure signs. Therefore, this research took doll Tiantoushui community in Changhua County, Taiwan as example attempted use evaluate signs bio-inspired design....

Evidence from sign language strongly supports three positions: (1) language is a coherent system with universal properties; (2) sign languages diverge from spoken languages in some aspects of their structure; and (3) domain-external factors can be identified that account for some crucial aspects of language structure -- uniform and diverse -- in both modalities. Assuming that any of these posit...

OpenID, a standard for Web single sign-on, has been gaining popularity both with Identity Providers, Relying Parties, and users. This paper collects the security issues in OpenID found by others, occasionally extended by the authors, and presents them in a uniform way. It attempts to combine the shattered knowledge into a clear overview. The aim of this paper is to raise awareness about securit...